2 caught stealing from Northside nativity display

10:08 AM,
Dec. 26, 2013

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Police said two people were arrested after they tried to steal from a church nativity display and led officers on a high-speed chase.

An officer for the Meridian Hills Police Department was off-duty late Sunday night when he saw a man walk toward the lighted display outside St. Luke Catholic Church, 7575 Holliday Drive East on the Northside. He turned on his emergency lights after seeing Clinton Eggleston, 26, Indianapolis, take two of the wooden lambs, according to a police report.

Eggleston dropped the figures, ran toward a Nissan Sentra parked nearby, and hopped in the passenger seat. The ...